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I am confident the battle can resolve in naruto's favor without reinforcements and without sasuke. Naruto and karuma have activated their bond, i doubt madara will break that bond. Chances are obito will be pivotal to stopping madara; just, i wonder if it will be in the obvious or typical way of the villain change of heart last minute. I hope kishi finds a more interesting way to allow obito to contribute to madara's defeat. Zabuza and pein were plenty.

With wood dragons or large creature techniques, i think it would be completely appropriate and wise for naruto to summon gamabunta and the pair of frog warriors. I would even enjoy a fluke summons of any of the lesser goofy dandy frogs in order to see madara's face as it happens. I don't, however, think ma and pa would be appropriate or useful. The toads soak up the large stuff like that wood dragon and naruto and bee can deal with madara.

kakashi won't lose his fight with obito. There is still the matter of both eyes achieving their potential as a pair. How or what that means i don't know. A pair of sharingan when used in concert by one wielder can yield greater power. We have never seen the pair of sharingan split and wielded against one another. That changes the whole dynamic and mechanic.

Obito supposedly knows the full extent of the uchiha kinjutsu/ forbidden techniques. What we don't see is kakashi knowing one of them. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see kakashi use either izanagi or izanami in a dramatic bid to steer the fight. It would be on the level of konahamaru using rassengsan to vanquish one of the pein bodies.

I would like to see some focus on kakashi's relationship with his sharingan. This is the perfect point in the story for that relationship to dramatically change. It is also perfect opportunity to see kakashi stay staunchly resolute in his ninja way. Kakashi needs to talk no jutsu obito (Please not naruto this time!). Talk no jutsu + izanami = freed obito but half blind kakashi. Obito takes the advantage away from madara.

Afterwards, someone will be dead. It's too heavy and epic for all major combatants to survive. Will it be...

Bee? Gai? Kakashi? Obito?

I could even see kakashi dying and obito filling the void after everything is settled.

What do the different levels of occular doujutsu see when reading make out tactics.

I am going with Knife Eater on this one too. Madara by saying "this attack held my Kyuubi" thinks that the same level of technique will work again. This is not true IMO. Naruto and Kurama have bonded and it was said early on (i think by Chiyo) that a Jinchuriki who is in control of the Bijuu focuses the Bijuus powers, making it stronger than a Bijuu by itself. So i am going to go with Naruto and Kurama getting the upper hand.

Sasuke's search for the 'person who knows everything' has not progressed far enough for him to have a big meeting with whoever it is and then to stumple across Naruto still going at it with Madara. That would just be too rushed, so i guess this one is all on Naruto and Kurama (does not look like Bee will be much help).

That concludes the flashbacks, I was kinda hoping for that. The purpose of these flashbacks was IMO to make us understand Obito and his background of villian and I think it managed to do so .. at least for me. Obito stopped caring for the real world bcs good people had to suffer as with winners theyre allways loosers right ? I can relate to that bcs honestly thats how the world works. This makes me even more so interested to see what philosophical answers can Kishi provide through Naruto.

About the battle, it lookse pretty bad for Naruto and co. By the looks of it, Naruto is the only one still capable of fighting toe to toe while the Bee and Kakashi is exhausted and Gai lookes to be even wounded. Turning the tide now requires a major boost. The possibilities here are ..

The last two chapters of flashbacks both felt EXTREMELY rushed by Kishi's standards... he took his sweet time getting through Obito's recoup + indoctrination, and then sprinted through the exciting stuff (meeting Nagato, launching the Kyuubi attack, etc). We still don't really understand Obito's motives for attacking the village, betraying the Uchiha, recruiting Sasuke... any of these events would have been very interesting to see from Obito's standpoint, and instead we're just back to the action.

And this chapter felt very odd... talk about jumping everywhere in history. The transition via Bijuudama from his fight vs. Minato to his fight vs. Naruto is interesting/symbolic, and whatnot... but it just didn't feel like a good point to end the flashbacks.

And suddenly we're back in the middle of the fight, with another incredible Hashirama technique and Naruto finally unleashing his full Bijuu Mode. No doubt we're in for some incredible action scenes, but what about the missing info from the flashbacks?

Perhaps Kakashi will be the one to explain to us why Rin had to die. Fair enough. But that doesn't tell us anything about Spiral Zetsu, who mysteriously disappeared in the middle of this flashback with no explanation. His personality is very much like the goofy "Tobi" we know and love. He already stated that his intelligence is beyond human level, which Tobi certainly seems to be. Could he still be living within Obito, to this day? Where/why would he have died?

I suppose I should be glad we're getting back to the action... it just feels like Kishi budgeted his pages in very questionable ways recently. He gives a whole chapter to slaughtering some random Mist ninja, yet gives us barely anything on the formation of Akatsuki and the many, many other Tobi plot points throughout the series?